[FoxNews] Fentanyl and stimulants form a deadly combination: ‘It’s time to start paying attention’
Experts say the U.S. is currently in a "fourth wave" of opioid overdose deaths, this one marked by a sharp increase in fentanyl — a synthetic opioid — being mixed with stimulant drugs.
A study published in the journal Addiction on Thursday by UCLA found that the share of overdoses involving a combination of fentanyl and stimulants increased by more than 50-fold — from .6% (235 deaths) to 32.3% (34,429 deaths) — between 2010 and 2015.
"We’re now seeing that the use of fentanyl together with stimulants is rapidly becoming the dominant force in the U.S. overdose crisis," said lead author Joseph Friedman, an addiction researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, in a press release.
"Fentanyl has ushered in a polysubstance overdose crisis, meaning that people are mixing fentanyl with other drugs, like stimulants, but also countless other synthetic substances," he continued.
The previous three waves occurred in the early 2000s, with the rise in prescription opioids; in 2010, when heroin was often mixed with fentanyl; and in 2013, with the use of fentanyl alone.
The current (fourth) wave began in 2015, with the rise in fentanyl mixed with stimulants.
At the start of the study period, in 2010, fentanyl was most often mixed with prescription opioids, benzodiazepines and alcohol, stated the study authors in the journal. By 2021, fentanyl was found primarily in stimulants — mainly cocaine in the Northeast and methamphetamine in the rest of the country.
Nearly every state saw a spike in fentanyl-stimulant overdose deaths between 2015 and 2021.
Rates were highest among certain racial groups, the study found. In 2021, the share of overdose deaths involving fentanyl-stimulant combinations was 73% among Black or African American women in western states. It was 69% among Black or African American men between 55 and 65 years of age in those same geographical regions.
This compares to 49% across the entire country.
The combination of fentanyl and stimulants creates unprecedented dangers for drug users and challenges for health care providers as well, Friedman noted.
"We have data and medical expertise about treating opioid use disorders, but comparatively little experience with the combination of opioids and stimulants together, or opioids mixed with other drugs," he said.
"This makes it hard to stabilize people medically who are withdrawing from polysubstance use."
‘THE NORM, NOT THE EXCEPTION’
Dr. Adam Scioli, medical director and head of psychiatry at Caron Treatment Centers in Philadelphia, was not involved in the study but noted that in the last decade, polysubstance use has become "the norm, not the exception."
"Given the risk of overdose and death associated with fentanyl, using it in combination with a stimulant increases the likelihood of death exponentially," Scioli said.
"Combined use of these drugs is not predictable, nor can it be managed. And it’s not just the fentanyl — stimulants carry their own significant risks, including stroke or death."
Dr. Scioli emphasized the need for families and individuals to keep Narcan available and accessible in the event of an overdose.
Yearly overdose deaths topped 100,000 for the first time in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl were involved in more than 75% of the overdose deaths.
Adding to the danger is the fact that many of the blended "polysubstances" do not respond to naloxone, the antidote to an opioid overdose, the UCLA release stated.
Even so, Scioli emphasized the need for families and individuals to keep Narcan available and accessible in the event of an overdose.
"While it will not counteract the effects of a stimulant, it will still reverse the effects of the fentanyl, so that supportive care can be provided until the effects of the other substance can be addressed, if possible," he said.
These things look so scripted. The set up question, and his answers never sound organic. Seems like DeSantis runs with whatever his handlers tell him. Monday it was first strike on N.Korea. Friday, now he wants to drone the cartels.
[ToloNews] US Special Envoy Thomas West said that the ISIS attacks have decreased in Afghanistan.
Speaking at a seminar at the Stimson Center think tank in Washington, West said that since early 2023, "Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... raids in Afghanistan have removed at least eight key ISKP leaders."
"The group that we worry most about is the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... branch in Afghanistan, ISKP. I think it's notable that since early 2023, Taliban raids in Afghanistan have removed at least eight key ISKP leaders, some responsible for external plotting. They have a very aggressive, violent mostly peaceful, offensive ongoing that has significantly degraded ISKP capability. I don’t want to overstate the case, as I said, we worry about this group that clearly harbors and intends to conduct external operations, but the Taliban offensive has been successful and significantly degraded their capabilities," the US envoy said.
West said the current Afghan government's fight against ISIS is important, but noted that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, TTP, "is posing the greatest threat" to regional stability." "We see a very significant increase in (TTP) attacks directed at Pakistain," West said.
The US special envoy said that a very high priority should be placed on the initiation of a dialogue among Afghans.
"We need to place a very high priority on the initiation of a dialogue among Afghans, and as I said, Afghans are organizing themselves of their own volition and without foreign interference. We hope that process will eventually lead to fundamentally more representative systems. It is not for the US to prescribe a formula on what a system would look like, but I think if Afghans took those steps including the Taliban it could very well lead to a much better relationship with the international community, including with the US," Thomas West said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... the Islamic Emirate once again pledged that Afghanistan territory will not be used against other countries.
"Destructive groups or elements do not exist in the territory of Afghanistan, nor is there a threat from the territory of Afghanistan against other countries. The groups they mention are in other countries," said Bilal Karimi, the deputy front man of the Islamic Emirate.
Referring to the withdrawal of the foreign forces from Afghanistan, West said that it is necessary for all countries that were involved in Afghanistan to review what they did wrong or right.
West said the counterterrorism actions had led to a "steady decrease" in ISKP attacks against Afghan civilians.
"There were horrific attacks largely against the Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... population, but we have not seen a return to those sorts of attacks since then," he added.
But the American envoy warned the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain, TTP, "is posing the greatest threat" to regional stability. "We see a very significant increase in (TTP) attacks directed at Pakistain," West said.
The holy warrior group, also known as the Pak Taliban, is listed as a global terrorist organization by the United States. It is waging terrorist attacks in neighboring Pakistain and operating out of Afghanistan sanctuaries.
Pak officials say TTP has intensified cross-border attacks since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul two years ago. The violence has become a daily routine and has reportedly killed more than 1,500 Paks, including civilians and security forces, mostly in districts near or on the Afghan border.
The TTP leadership has publicly pledged allegiance to Hibatullah Akhundzada, the reclusive supreme leader of the Afghan Taliban. The holy warrior group emerged in Pak border areas in 2007 and fought alongside the Taliban against the U.S.-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... troops in Afghanistan.
"They became allies of the Taliban during the war. They were financial supporters, logistical supporters, and operational allies as well. I think the ties between them are quite tight," West said.
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[IsraelTimes] Letter to congressional committee reportedly says cash will go to Taiwan and Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... instead; Democrat Chris Murphy (D., Conn) ...Junior senator for life from Connecticutt, foreign policy mastermind, a fast friend and a sympathetic ear to mullahs, ayatollahs, and similar riff-raff. The indigestable boilerplate on his website sez he has has dedicated his career to public service as an advocate for Connecticut families, which means approximately nothing. He's been a strong voice in the Senate fighting for job creation, affordable health care, education, sensible gun laws, and a forward-looking foreign policy. You can guess what that mess actually means, though the voters of Connecticutt can't... calls for keeping back a further $235 million Continued on Page 49
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WHAT ABOUT OUR MILITARY?
Given all the military equipment, missiles, ammo, weapons and $$$ Billions, we are sending to everyone else around the world.
The USA DOD recruitment is down across all branches.
29% of the E1 to E4 Soldiers qualify for Food Stamps.
DC continues it's piss poor funding of the Active, retiree, and VA medical systems.
All while we are at Defcon Level 3 (Round House) with Military fingers in too many distant pies. But yet, our depleted DOD is supposed to be able to mobilize in less than 15 minutes time?
BTW: Level 3, is the same Defcon level seen on September 11th, 2001 with the attacks on the World Trade Ctr. Towers, the Pentagon itself and the DC capitol avoided due to those passengers.
For those that suited up, or worked in Levels 2 & 3 situations, the pucker-factor gets seriously interesting.
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At the heart of this is the Democrat Party support for the Muslim Brotherhood. Don't believe it? Check Hillary Clinton, her support for Morsy, the left wing and anti-Semitic drift in the US Embassy-Cairo during the so-called "Arab Spring."
[AlAhram] Families seeking asylum in the UK face inadequate living conditions in government-provided temporary housing, affecting their mental and physical health and access to children's education, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
Releasing a new 100-page report based on joint research with UK human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... group Just Fair, HRW said they found the "dire" living conditions were the result of "longstanding policy failings".
The rights organizations said they interviewed over 50 asylum seekers, including 27 children, who were living in or had recently left temporary housing in England.
Many said they had spent months in temporary housing despite a government target to move families to longer-term accommodation within 19 days, according to the report.
The report said it found that people placed in hotel accommodation were facing "serious habitability problems", including a lack of space, dampness, mould, broken or missing furniture and pest infestations.
It added that families struggle to provide their children with an adequate diet without access to cooking facilities and children face barriers in accessing education as local schools may not allow them to enrol immediately.
"Inhumane and inadequate housing for people seeking safety is never acceptable, and certainly not in the world's sixth-largest economy," said Yasmine Ahmed, UK director at Human Rights Watch.
"Instead of recklessly wasting resources on grudging, deficient, and short-sighted responses, the UK government should redirect its funding toward suitable long-term housing and social support," she added.
CONTROVERSY
The government is trying to reduce what it calls "illegal" migration to the UK -- a highly contentious political issue in the country -- and is under pressure to stop migrants colonists colonists making dangerous crossings of the Channel in small boats.
It has introduced controversial legislation barring asylum claims by all arrivals via the Channel and other "illegal routes", also mandating their transfer to third countries, such as Rwanda.
But both policies are on hold amid a court challenge over the legality of sending migrants colonists colonists to east Africa.
The UK government is also trying to lower the costs of hotel accommodation for asylum seekers and instead wants to use barges, disused military bases and even tents.
Reviving the use of prison hulks? How picturesque they will be, parked up and down the Thames.
Last month the UK controversially began housing adult men onboard the "Bibby Stockholm" barge off the southwest English coast but in an embarrassing setback had to remove them within days after Legionella bacteria was found in the water on board.
Human Rights Watch and Just Fair said that "barges, barracks, and similar large-scale institutionalised settings share the serious shortcomings of repurposed hotels and should not be used as asylum housing in the UK".
"Instead, people seeking asylum should be supported to find their own housing in communities they choose and should be allowed to work as long as their cases are being considered, the approach used in the UK until 1999."
[FOX] Local politicians have reportedly been charging big bucks per month to help shepherd migrants through a section of the jungle between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap, moving what is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of people so far this year north toward the U.S.-Mexico border.
The New York Times reported Thursday that instead of clandestine human traffickers skirting authorities, politicians, prominent businessmen and elected leaders in Columbia have openly been charging millions of dollars a month on packages promising to transport migrants through the Darien Gap. This is despite the Biden administration and the governments of Columbia and Panama vowing earlier this year to curb the massive migration pattern through that area.
"We have organized everything: the boatmen, the guides, the bag carriers," Darwin Garcia, an elected community board member and former town councilman in Acandi, a Colombian municipality at the entrance to the jungle, told the Times.
Thanks, Border Czar. Thanks, USAID/US State department partners.
The UN estimates 7.7 million people in Colombia will require humanitarian assistance during 2023 due to the effects of climate-related disasters and armed conflict, while an additional 5.4 million Venezuelans in Colombia and vulnerable host community members will require humanitarian assistance during the year, according to the Regional Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V). Amid recurring natural disasters and armed conflict, the influx of approximately 2.5 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees in Colombia, as well as the return of nearly 1 million Colombians from Venezuela in recent years, has strained local services and exacerbated food, health, livelihoods, nutrition, protection, shelter, and water, sanitation, and hygiene needs in both rural and urban areas of the country.
In response, USAID supports partners to provide humanitarian assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) conflict-affected populations, Venezuelan migrants and refugees, as well as vulnerable host community members across Colombia. USAID-funded programs aim to address acute food insecurity among Venezuelans by providing emergency food assistance, including cash transfers for food, food kits, food vouchers redeemable in local markets, and hot meals. To address the humanitarian needs of Colombian IDPs, USAID partners provide emergency food assistance, health, protection, shelter, and water, sanitation, and hygiene support, while also implementing activities to bolster agricultural production and livelihoods.
[Dawn] Survivors of a migrant shipwreck off Greece in June, in which hundreds died, filed a lawsuit against the Greek authorities on Thursday, accusing them of violating their duty to protect the lives of the people on board the vessel.
The overcrowded fishing trawler said to be carrying between 400-750 people from Pakistain, Syria and Egypt sank in international waters off Greece on its way to Italia from Libya. Some 104 men survived and authorities recovered only 82 bodies.
Survivors have recounted hellish conditions above and below deck, with no food or water and a disastrous attempt by the Greek coasties to tow the vessel which capsized, according to interviews and evidence seen by Rooters.
The Greek coastguard and government have said they were monitoring the vessel for hours and no attempt was made to tow the boat which overturned when the coastguard was about 70 metres away.
A judicial investigation into the causes of the disaster is under way and could take more than a year to be completed.
On Thursday, 40 survivors filed a lawsuit complaining that "Greek authorities failed to intervene immediately and organize an appropriate operation in time to rescue those on board," a statement by the Hellenic League for Human Rights, one of their representatives, said.
They say the vessel was "clearly unseaworthy" and also call for "an immediate, thorough and credible investigation" into the causes of the deadliest boat disaster in the Mediterranean in recent years.
Lawyers representing families of the missing have filed a request to judicial authorities investigating the case for the boat to be retrieved.
Turkey may be constrained by necessity to make nice with Israel at the moment, but they continue to ensure that the only Jewish nation is aware that Turkey is a leader of the Master Religion. They still remember the days when Mark Twain described small boys stoning a Jew who was forbidden by law to defend himself.
[IsraelTimes] Lawyer for Acre resident says he’s heading back to Israel after being held for over a month, won’t be allowed back in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
Ottoman Turkish authorities have freed an Israeli man held in jug for over a month on suspicion of stealing an ancient artifact.
The man, an Acre resident who was not been named publicly, was arrested in August after airport officials in Antalya found an ornamental bell in his luggage, accusing him of attempting to smuggle an antiquity out of the country.
In his defense, the man showed a receipt for his purchase of the $100 item from a local market and said he was under the impression it was mass-produced.
As part of efforts to secure his freedom, his family also presented security camera footage of him buying the bell while vacationing with his wife and children.
Under the conditions of his release, the man was permitted to return to Israel on Thursday but barred from again entering Turkey.
"I am happy that the mission was completed and my client is on the way to Israel," his lawyer Nir Yaslovitz said in a statement quoted by the Walla news site.
Yaslovitz thanked President Isaac Herzog and the Foreign Ministry for helping lobby for the man’s release.
In 2021, an Israeli couple was detained for a week by Ottoman Turkish authorities on suspicion of espionage after having photographed the residence of Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... in Istanbul. The couple was released following extensive diplomatic efforts.
At the time, the release of the couple was complicated by longstanding tensions between Ankara and Jerusalem.
Relations have since warmed. Last year, Herzog met with Erdogan in Turkey, and then-prime minister Yair Lapid met with Erdogan in New York in the fall.
A planned trip of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet with Erdogan in Turkey, which would have been a first since 2006, was postponed following the premier’s pacemaker implantation surgery.
The two are now set to meet next week on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Israeli sources told The Times of Israel on Thursday.
[MilitaryTimes] The solider helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. As a refugee, he hoped to save his life by joining his brother in Houston.
Nearly a year after former Afghan intelligence officer Abdul Wasi Safi was detained near the Texas-Mexico border, the Justice Department on Tuesday granted him asylum to live with his brother Sami-ullah Safi in Houston and waived his immigration hearing.
Wasi said he couldn’t believe the news.
"I was in shock like, I say, 'Oh my God,' is it real?" Wasi said in an interview with Military Times. "Is it really my paper? My asylum is really granted or what?"
The decision comes nearly 11 months since Wasi said he turned himself in to border patrol agents to declare asylum but was charged with entering the U.S. without the proper documentation. Wasi's story was first reported by The Texas Tribune.
Wasi, 27, had left Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrew from the country after 20 years of conflict. As a special operations soldier in the Afghan National Security Forces, Wasi was under direct threat of retaliation by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... . The last U.S. troops departed Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021, after the Taliban captured Kabul, leaving as many as 150,000 Afghans like Wasi behind, including individuals who worked closely with U.S. military forces as interpreters and combat assistants.
The brothers refer to the vacuum of the American presence in their home country as "the collapse," when the Taliban quickly took control over the government as the last planes departed from Kabul. In a harrowing journey across continents, Wasi made his way by air, taxi, and on foot to reunite with his older brother Sami, 30, in Houston. He was hopeful that the U.S. would welcome him with open arms, only to spend months in detention centers in Texas. He was released early this year after a swirl of press attention and major efforts by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee ...the clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She is noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome... , D-Houston.
But his asylum hearing was shifted multiple times, from July, to a date in mid-December, then November. Wasi wasn’t expecting a decision today.
Now, he just wants to provide support for his family still in Afghanistan.
"I try to find some good job, for my family, and I hope I go to college," Wasi said, after first tuning up his English. His brother, Sami, largely does the translating for him. The two have lived together since Wasi’s release from the detention center in Del Rio.
[IsraelTimes] Washington, London, Gay Paree and Berlin tell IAEA that if Iranians don’t provide explanations needed, UN atomic agency will need to take further action to hold Tehran accountable
Like what? The IAEA has no brigades, and we’ve seen that international sanctions are a) not respected by the countries imposing them, and b) unable to keep Iran from continuing to develop its Shiite nukes. And only Israel has been willing to do the sabotage, assassination, and tqrgetted missiles necessary, and only then they can only work around the edges where the big boys can’t adt to block them.
Britannia, the US, La Belle France and Germany told the UN’s nuclear agency that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... must clarify remaining questions over its nuclear program or face further action against it.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the four countries said an ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency resolution on the matter would only be needed if the Iranians do not comply.
"Iran cannot continue to fail to meet its legal safeguards obligations," the group of four countries said in a Wednesday statement to the IAEA board, which is meeting in Vienna. "We urge Iran to act without delay to clarify and resolve all outstanding issues."
Among the issues concerned are reinstalling IAEA monitoring cameras Tehran had removed from its known nuclear sites, and explaining the presence in Iran of uranium particles enriched to near weapons-grade level.
"If Iran fails to implement the essential and urgent actions... the Board will have to be prepared to take further action... to hold Iran accountable in the future, including the possibility of a resolution," the statement said.
President Biden just gave them $6 billion and a bunch of spies, with the implied promise of more money later. Again, shat is the Board going to do that matters?
The quartet noted it has been more than four years since undeclared nuclear material was found at undeclared locations in Iran and that in November 2022 the IAEA decided it is "essential and urgent" that Iran clarify the issues.
Clearly, the IAEA’s definition of urgent isn’t.
The countries said Iran must provide "without further delay, technically credible information" about nuclear material and contaminated equipment found at sites in Turquzabad and Varamin.
“Got those locations, Corporal Shoshana?”
“Yes, ma’am! Calculating targetting coordinates for the F-35s now, Sgt. Rivka!”
Without such explanations, the statement said, the IAEA will not be able to provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear program "is exclusively peaceful."
Given that it has from the beginning been explicitly not peaceful...
"Iran persists in its deliberate refusal to engage earnestly with the Agency," it said.
If the countries controlling the IAEA were actually serious, perhaps Iran would take it seriously.
On Monday, IAEA director Rafael Grossi lamented there was a "decrease of interest" by IAEA members states regarding Iran’s nuclear program, without naming them.
Joe Biden’s America, for one.
The comments followed an easing tensions between Iran and the United States, which announced a prisoner swap last month.
"We are aware that there is a bilateral process of sorts. We have been informed by the United States about this. But when it comes to the nuclear part, (it is) not clear what is being discussed," Grossi stressed at the time.
Last week, the IAEA said in confidential reports seen by AFP that Iran had made "no progress" on several outstanding nuclear issues.
In 2015, major world powers reached a deal with Iran, under which Tehran would curb its nuclear program in exchange for relief from crippling economic sanctions.
That started to unravel in 2018 when then-US president Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... unilaterally withdrew from the pact and reimposed sanctions. Tehran in turn stepped up its nuclear program.
Efforts to revive the deal have been fruitless so far.
As far as Iran was concerned, the purpose of President Obama’s deal was to ease sanctions and give them time to quietly develop their nuclear bomb and refine their uranium without interference. Now that they’ve reached that point without their centrifuges being pounded to rubble, they have no more need for a “deal.”
Iran has always denied any ambition to develop a nuclear weapons capability, insisting its activities are entirely peaceful.
The process is the punishment for the crime of being Bibi, or for supporting him.
[IsraelTimes] As Motti Levy gives court testimony, documents reveal PM testified before state commision of inquiry into naval corruption case, with panel’s work continuing.
Not a story we’ve been following. This is all that we have in the archives about a submarine affair, and it clearly is not the one Bibi Netanyahu is maliciously caught up in. Still, it’s nice that someone admits he doesn’t deserve this one thing that was done to him.
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli army announces it is imposing a closure on border crossings between Israel and the West Bank and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip during Rosh Hashanah this weekend.
The closure is set to begin on Friday, September 15, at 12:01 a.m., and last until Sunday, September 17, at 11:59 p.m.
Still, the Israel Defense Forces says the border crossings for Paleostinians will reopen "subject to a situational assessment."
A separate assessment will be held regarding potential closures on Yom Kippur and Sukkot later this month, the IDF adds.
Such closures are standard practice during festivals and holidays, in what the military says is a preventative measure against attacks at those times, which are seen as periods of increased tension.
Exceptions during the upcoming closure will be made for humanitarian and other outstanding cases, but will require the approval of the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.
Mazel tov all you have achieved, Major, and on all you have yet to achieve.
[y-net] Maj. Shimon Abraham's mother and 10 other Israelis were killed in a horrific terror attack in December 2001 during the second intifada, 22 years ago. Today he has returned to defend the same area in the West Bank where the terror attack took place in his new position as deputy commander of the IDF's new co-ed Panther battalion.
Abraham, who lived an ultra-Orthodox lifestyle in the West Bank settlement of Emmanuel, is no longer religious and is serving as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, a feat most ultra-Orthodox boys do not seek. In his new role, Abraham commands the Qalqilya area in the West Bank which includes settlements including Emmanuel.
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"Abraham, who lived an ultra-Orthodox lifestyle in the West Bank settlement of Emmanuel, is no longer religious and is serving as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces"
And here I was going to wish him a L'Shana Tova...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FoxNews] Fentanyl and stimulants form a deadly combination: ‘It’s time to start paying attention’
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
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...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
